SWF & FLV Player for Mac OS – What’s new in this version?

SWF & FLV Player 3.8
Build 3.8.20.6241 [Released: May 6, 2009]

  • Added: possibility to choose background color for FLV files
  • Added: possibility to disable screensaver during full-screen playback
  • Fixed: bug with current frame capture
  • Fixed: several minor bugs

SWF & FLV Player 3.8
Build 3.8.18.6235 [Released: April 17, 2009]

  • Updated: Spanish localization
  • Fixed: bug with converting a SWF file into image series

SWF & FLV Player 3.8
Build 3.8.18.6231 [Released: April 13, 2009]

  • Added: new version of Flash’In’App used (2.0)
  • Added: Spanish localization
  • Improved: several engine enhancements
  • Fixed: several minor bugs

SWF & FLV Player 3.8
Build 3.8.17.6225 [Released: February 13, 2009]

  • Fixed: minor bug in “SWF file list” while using “Download online Flash movies” feature
  • Fixed: some other minor bugs

SWF & FLV Player 3.8
Build 3.8.17.6224 [Released: February 10, 2009]

  • Improved: stability of “Download online Flash movies” option
  • Improved: estimation of FLV movie duration while playback
  • Fixed: Player crash when “Download online Flash movies” option is applied
  •  Fixed: several minor bugs

SWF & FLV Player 3.7
Build 3.7.16.6210 [Released: July 28, 2008]

  • New version of Flash’In’App used (1.1)
  • Improved: several engine enhancements
  • Fixed: minor bug in detection of FLV size (weight, height)
  • Several fixes in “Download online Flash movies” feature
  • Fixed: several bugs and glitches

SWF & FLV Player 3.7
Build 3.7.15.6206 [Released: May 21, 2008]

  • Several stability enhancements
  • Fixed: downloading online Flash movies in MacOS 10.4
  • Fixed: bug in Flash movies names saving while using “Download online Flash movies” feature
  • Fixed: several bugs and glitches

SWF & FLV Player 3.7
Build 3.7.15.6204 [Released: May 20, 2008]

  • Updated: French, German, Japanese (Tadahisa SUGISAKI) localizations
  • Improved: overall application stability and speed
  • Fixed: bug in movie playback freezing when player window is inactive
  • Fixed: several bugs and glitches

SWF & FLV Player 3.7
Build 3.7.15.6198 [Released: April 8, 2007]

  • Added: auto update mechanism
  • Updated: minimal system requirements (now starting from MacOS 10.4)
  • Several stability enhancements
  • Fixed: bug in playing SWF files from the playlist in fullscreen mode
  • Fixed: minor bug in “Download online Flash movies” feature
  • Fixed: determination of FLV movies length (see restrictions in “Known issues” section)
  • Fixed: several bugs and glitches

SWF & FLV Player 3.6
Build 3.6.13.6160 [Released: December 6, 2007]

  • Updated: version of Adobe Flash Player plugin (now 9.0.115.0)
  • Improved: overall application stability and speed
  • Fixed: some menu issues when using French localization
  • Fixed: minor bug in “Download online Flash movies” feature
  • Fixed: several bugs and glitches

SWF & FLV Player 3.6
Build 3.6.13.6150 [Released: November 27, 2007]

  • Added: Leopard support
  • Added: Safari 3 support
  • Added: ability to resize Flash movie using mouse scroll
  • Added: FLV extension (*.flv) is added automatically to Flash file when saving it to hard disk while using “Download online Flash movies” feature
  • Improved: “Download online Flash movies” feature. Now duplicate sub-resources are not added to resources list
  • Improved: several engine enhancements
  • Fixed: bug in images sizing (formerly size of exported image was more than the original SWF file)
  • Fixed: minor bug in progress bar while using “Download online Flash movies” feature
  • Fixed: minor bug in FLV files duration representation
  • Fixed: other minor bugs and glitches

SWF & FLV Player 3.5
Build 3.5.12.5930 [Released: October 4, 2007]

  • “Download online Flash movies” feature does not work if you have Safari 3 Beta installed in your system
  • Fixed: representation of loading resources when Safari 3 Beta installed
  • Fixed: minor bugs
  • Updated: Japanese localization (thanks to Tadahisa SUGISAKI)

SWF & FLV Player 3.5
Build 3.5.12.5925 [Released: September 20, 2007]

  • Added: integration with browsers (see details in this section)
  • Added: ability to preview whole sites with Flash movies by enhanced “Download online Flash movies” feature
  • Added: history of visited URLs in “Download online Flash movies” feature
  • Added: ability to display not only SWF and FLV files but all web page resources (pictures, java scripts, etc) while using “Download online Flash movies” feature
  • Added: you are able to write in web address without “http://” prefix now
  • Minimum system requirements are refreshed: now starting from Mac OS X v10.3.9
  • Improved: SWF and FLV saving mechanism by means of giving new name for each file
  • Improved: overall stability of “Download online Flash movies” feature
  • Fixed: minor bug with resources representation in “SWF info”
  • Fixed: other several bugs and glitches

SWF & FLV Player 3.0
Build 3.0.33.5110 [Released: August 3, 2007]

  • Changes in interface: “Browse URL” feature is renamed to “Download online Flash movies”
  • Improved: 1:1 (restore to original size) function
  • Playlist management algorithms enhanced
  • Fixed: minor bugs

SWF & FLV Player 3.0
Build 3.0.33.5105 [Released: May 21, 2007]

  • Added: traditional Chinese localization (thanks to You Shang Yee)
  • Improved: FLV playing mechanism
  • Fixed: determining original size of movie
  • Fixed: several minor bugs

SWF & FLV Player 3.0
Build 3.0.33.5096 [Released: February 28, 2007]

  • Fixed some stability issues and occasional crashes on player startup
  • Extremely long playback stabilized, we prevented crash and even with more memory occupied SWF & FLV Player works fine
    Playlist management algorithms enhanced
  • Some bug fixes and internal improvements

SWF & FLV Player 3.0
Build 3.0.33.5082 [Released: February 18, 2007]

  • Fixed critical issue with SWF movies and their external resources loading when advancing the playlist
  • Several interface fixes and playlist minor enhancements
  • FLV behavior and conversion into images improved

SWF & FLV Player 3.0
Build 3.0.33.5070 [Released: February 13, 2007]

  •  Added: Czech localization (thanks to Tomas Beran)
  • Added: Full Flash 9 support
  • Added: “Float on Top” option for Movie Window
  • Added: Ability to make screenshot of the current frame
  • Added: Ability to convert SWF movie into series of images
  • Changed: Free version of SWF & FLV Player enables full playback of FLV movies
  • Changed: Interface design and settings
  • Changed: Full playback of FLV movie in SWF & FLV Player free version (previously it was played for 15 seconds)
  • Changed: Minimum system version requirements (MacOS X 10.3)
  • Changed: Ability to use zooming when “Allow native dragging” is enabled
  • Improved: Mechanism of jumping to the next/previous item in the playlist when “Shuffle” is on
  • Improved: Mechanism of sending keyboard events to SWF
  • Improved: Application’s stability and speed

SWF Movie Player 2.0
Build 2.0.16.2128 [Released: December 19, 2006]

  • Fixed an important issue with playing SWF/FLV files from YouTube.com
  • Updated FLV playing mechanism
  • Several playback issues fixed to make it smoother
  • About 20 minor fixes and enhancements

SWF Movie Player 2.0
Build 2.0.16.2000 [Released: November 23, 2006]

  • Native Flash dragging is now fully support: new option “Allow native dragging” added (note: in this case zooming is disabled)
  • Several minor post-release enhancements
  • Minor stability issues fixed

SWF Movie Player 2.0
Build 2.0.14.1920 [Released: November 20, 2006]

  • Added: the possibility to set FLV playing at the original size
  • Improved: application stability
  • Enhanced: SWF Info (video in sprites are now also listed)
  • Fixed: player crashing at application startup and adding files to an empty playlist

SWF Movie Player 2.0
Build 2.0.13.1896 [Released: October 23, 2006]

  • Improved: application stability and speed
  • Fixed: “Browse URL” dialog handling while previewing SWF file
  • Fixed: Volume control updating mechanism
  • Fixed: Mouse events handling when moving application to secondary monitor
  • Fixed: Focus switching/setting events (in textfield and text area controls)

SWF Movie Player 2.0
Build 2.0.12.1878 [Released: September 4, 2006]

  • Hot offer: SWF Movie Player PRO is now supplied for free to everyone ordering Flash Optimizer for Mac
  • Added: German localization (thanks to Christian Maus)
  • Fixed: Issue related to Zoom Drawer re-drawing/updating mechanism
  • Fixed: “Preferences” dialog closing procedure
  • Fixed: Full-screen mode switching issue when using more than 1 desktop
  • Updated: Japanese localization

SWF Movie Player 2.0
Build 2.0.12.1865 [Released: August 30, 2006]

  • Improved: URL address string (“Browse URL”/”Open URL” options) is brought to RFC 2396 standard, which means that URL is Unicode compliant from now on
  • Improved: Application exiting behavior (when closing Viewer window SWF Movie Player will not quit)
  • Improved: Windows positioning on the first launch (from now on they are centered)
  • Changed: FLV movie is previewed for 15 seconds in SWF Movie Player free version (previously it was played for 5 seconds)
  • Fixed: Movie controls buttons state
  • Fixed: Fullscreen switching behavior when using context menu is corrected
  • Fixed: Switching to/from fullscreen behavior when sheet windows are open (now all windows are modal)
  • Fixed: All remote Flash movie resources are loaded asynchronously from now on

SWF Movie Player 2.0
Build 2.0.10.1834 [Released: August 26, 2006]

  • Improved: SWF Movie Player stability and speed
  • Fixed: “Unexpectedly quit” problems on Intel-based Mac
  • Fixed: Several other minor bugs

SWF Movie Player 2.0
Build 2.0.10.1832 [Released: August 19, 2006]

  • PRO version is now available
  • Added: Ability to save currently played SWF file no matter whether it is local or downloaded from the web page (PRO version only)
  • Added: Preview and downloading of on-line Flash animation from any web site
  • Added: Open Flash animation at the specified URL address
  • Added: Ability to play/preview Flash Video (FLV) files
  • Added: Fully customizable playlist (save, load, reorder)
  • Added: Full-screen Flash movie playback
  • Added: Jumping to a specific frame (time for FLV files)
  • Added: The number of frames/duration information to playlist window
  • Improved: Stability and speed
  • Improved: Loading SWF external resources mechanism
  • Improved: Interface design and quick commands access
  • Changed: Fit the player window to movie size
  • Changed: Minimum system version requirements (MacOS X 10.2.7)
  • Fixed: Several minor bugs

SWF Movie Player 1.3
Build 1.3.12.3265 [Released: April 10, 2006]

  • Fixed: The bug when playing SWF files created by Apple Keynote
  • Improved: stability and speed

SWF Movie Player 1.3
Build 1.3.12.3258 [Released: April 1, 2006]

  • SWF Movie Player is now a universal binary which means it runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs
  • Improved: stability and speed
  • Fixed: errors when opening some files using drag’n’drop

SWF Movie Player 1.2
Build 1.2.15.1296 [Released: February 03, 2006]

  • Added: Italian localization (thanks to Claudio, Creative Shield http://ShieldNet.tk)
  • Improved: ZoomView window behavior
  • Improved: Projector files openning

SWF Movie Player 1.2
Build 1.2.10.0325 [Released: January 09, 2006]

  • Added: Support of Mac OS and Windows Macromedia Projector files
  • Improved: Wrong file format recognition
  • Improved: Application’s stability and resource efficiency
  • Fixed: “Cancel” button behavior in “Preferences” dialog
  • Fixed: Forward and Backward buttons behavior

SWF Movie Player 1.1
Build 1.1.50.1290 [Released: January 04, 2006]

  • Added: Japanese localization (thanks to Tadahisa SUGISAKI)

SWF Movie Player 1.1
Build 1.1.50.1266 [Released: December 28, 2005]

  • Added: French localization (thanks to Ronald Leroux)
  • Added: Default SWF files icon associated our player could be applied
  • Fixed: Few issues with mouse pointer

SWF Movie Player 1.1
Build 1.1.50.0632 [Released: December 23, 2005]

  • The first official release.